Why Do You Only See the Win, Never the Wait?

0:00Williamson talks about this with like unlearnable or unteachable lessons, things like that. Lessons that are difficult to observe unless you go through them. One of my One of the guys who worked for me, he said, "You know I consumed your content for, you know, years." He said, "But seeing you at the office at 4:00 a.m. every day when you don't need to do this at all, the consistency of it." He's like, "I I don't see that in the content. I mean, I I see the output of that." And one of the things with consistency is that you need to be consistent in order to witness consistency.

0:30Like you can't you can't even observe Like even if I did a time lapse that takes 10 seconds of me doing it, you still don't perceive it. So, there's there's the consistency piece. And I think the other one with it with regards to the long-term component is patience. Yeah, also to be to fair, focus because um Sharan, my partner, says this. He says, um people only see the choices you made, not the options you had. >> Mhm. >> And so, you can't really witness focus.

0:56You just see winning. >> Mhm. Mhm. >> And so, to the same degree with patience, again, you only see the win. Like if you look at a marathon, people are there at the beginning, they're there at the end. No one's here in the middle. >> Yeah. >> Cuz it's the only fun part. The content of a marathon would be the the intro and the exit. Like you'd literally make it into a clip that's 30 seconds. You'd be like, "Hoorah! Yay!" And then maybe a couple mile markers. And it's like, "Wait, we compressed this. What a What a bargain. Great great return on time." You can't really witness patience unless you've literally followed it from the beginning, which of course you'll have your OG people who are with you in the beginning of Diary of a CEO. And they've they've seen the patience start to play out. But it's one of the things that like one of the the ultimate gifts that I would hope in The equal opposite of this is Steve Wynn, I think, talked about how his the best thing in the world is that someone comes their first time to one of his casinos, bets big, and wins. It's the best thing ever. The worst thing that can happen is that the first time they come, they lose their money cuz then they never gamble again. And so, it's like they he wants that big reinforcing event up front because then you can become a a gambling addict, right?

1:51>> Mhm. >> And so, to the same degree, my my hope for like my kid in the future or or anyone who's trying to start out is that they have something that happens in their life where they are rewarded for delaying the outcome and having a big jackpot as a result of the consistent effort where they they delayed the reward. Cuz as soon as you do learn that lesson, you see how big the big can be when you wait.

2:17>> Yeah.